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News and more for the Portuguese American CommunityFri, 16 Feb 2018 02:06:21 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.5Azores Airlines: New Airbus A321 to debut on Boston-Ponta Delgada route – Azoreshttp://portuguese-american-journal.com/azores-airlines-new-airbus-a321-debut-boston-ponta-delgada-route-azores/
http://portuguese-american-journal.com/azores-airlines-new-airbus-a321-debut-boston-ponta-delgada-route-azores/#respondFri, 26 Jan 2018 18:39:22 +0000http://portuguese-american-journal.com/?p=46237The Azores Airlines is inaugurating the first of four new A321neo aircraft, delivered by the Airbus consortium based in Hamburg, Germany. The first commercial flight to Boston is schedule to debut on February 2nd, connecting Ponta Delgada João Paulo II Airport and Boston Logan Airport. There will be four weekly flights, which were previously made […]

]]>The Azores Airlines is inaugurating the first of four new A321neo aircraft, delivered by the Airbus consortium based in Hamburg, Germany.

The first commercial flight to Boston is schedule to debut on February 2nd, connecting Ponta Delgada João Paulo II Airport and Boston Logan Airport.

There will be four weekly flights, which were previously made with Airbus A310. As of March, with a second A321neo in service, Azores Airlines has scheduled six flights per week. Also starting in March, coinciding with the start of the IATA 2018 summer season, the A321neo will begin flying on the Ponta Delgada-Lisbon routes (10 flights per week) and Ponta Delgada-Toronto (Canada) with six weekly flights. In addition, starting March 2018, services are scheduled for the Terceira-Boston route with one flight per week.

The A321neo carries up to 186 passengers, offering the widest single-aisle cabin on the market, with modern comfort in every class. The new aircraft will replace the existing A31, bringing new levels of operating efficiency, passenger comfort, low fuel burn and emissions.

Named “Breathe” the new A321neo is a clear reference to the open skies and fresh air the islands have to offer travelers. Its fuselage is decorated with a blue and green design, alluding to the dominant natural colors of the Azores.

The new aircraft is the first of six A321neo on order by Azores Airlines. The second aircraft “Wonder” will be delivered at the end of the first quarter of 2018. The next four aircraft will be operational between 2019 and early 2021.

With the new aircraft acquisition (Portuguese registration CS-TSF), the Azores Airlines becomes the first Portuguese carrier to offer six new-generation, brand-new Airbus A321neo, with the aim to providing a more efficient service and robust network.

Azores Airlines has been offering regular air service between Boston and the Azores, and Lisbon and Porto mainland Portugal, with seasonal service from Providence (Rhode Island), Oakland (California), and Toronto (Canada). In addition, Azores Airlines offers connections to Madeira, Cape Verde and the Canary Islands and major Western European cities.

Azores Airlines, part of the SATA Group, has connected the United States with the Azores and mainland Portugal for more than 35 years.

]]>http://portuguese-american-journal.com/azores-airlines-new-airbus-a321-debut-boston-ponta-delgada-route-azores/feed/0Travel: Azores Airlines adding more flights to Canada – Azoreshttp://portuguese-american-journal.com/travel-azores-airlines-adding-more-flights-to-canada-azores/
http://portuguese-american-journal.com/travel-azores-airlines-adding-more-flights-to-canada-azores/#respondWed, 19 Jul 2017 00:41:33 +0000http://portuguese-american-journal.com/?p=45535To meet the growing demand, SATA/Azores Airlines intends to expand its service in Canada, projecting to increase its operations by 21% this year, transporting around 128,000 passengers between Canada the Azores and mainland Portugal. “For 2017, the Azores Airlines plans to operate 40 more flights between Canada and Portugal, in addition to introducing a larger […]

]]>To meet the growing demand, SATA/Azores Airlines intends to expand its service in Canada, projecting to increase its operations by 21% this year, transporting around 128,000 passengers between Canada the Azores and mainland Portugal.

“For 2017, the Azores Airlines plans to operate 40 more flights between Canada and Portugal, in addition to introducing a larger capacity aircraft – the A-330 replacing the A-310 – which translates into a significant growth,” said Carlos Botelho from Azores Airlines.

SATA/Azores Airlines has been serving Canada for 30 years connecting Canada and Portugal through a daily flight from Toronto and Montreal to Ponta Delgada and Terceira, in the Azores, in addition to Porto and Lisbon in mainland Portugal.

Currently, four companies are operating between Canada and Portugal, namely Air Canada, Air Transat, Azores Airlines and TAP Air Portugal. Air Canada is a Star Alliance partner of TAP.

The aim is to meet the growing demand by Canadians who choose mainland Portugal and the Azores as a tourism destination. An estimated 500,000 Portuguese nationals and Canadians of Portuguese descendants live in Canada (2011 census), the vast majority in the province of Ontario.

In North America, SATA/Azores Airlines offers connections from the United States to the Azores and mainland Portugal from Logan International Airport (Boston, MA), Oakland International Airport (Oakland, CA) and T.F. Green Airport (Providence, RI). In Canada, the carrier offers connections to the Azores and mainland Portugal from Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (Montreal), and Toronto Pearson International Airport (Toronto).

In addition, SATA/Azores Airlines launched a twice-weekly operation between Boston Logan Airport and Barcelona (Spain) and a twice-weekly service from Boston Logon Airport to Santiago Island (Cape Verde).

In the United States, although Both TAP Air Portugal and Azores Airlines serve the Boston-Lisbon route, the Azores Airlines will remain the only commercial airline providing direct flights between the United States and the Azores.

]]>http://portuguese-american-journal.com/travel-azores-airlines-adding-more-flights-to-canada-azores/feed/0Community: Silicon Valley Portuguese Education & Culture Foundation – San Jose, CAhttp://portuguese-american-journal.com/community-silicon-valley-portuguese-education-culture-foundation-san-jose-ca/
http://portuguese-american-journal.com/community-silicon-valley-portuguese-education-culture-foundation-san-jose-ca/#respondFri, 23 Jun 2017 14:23:57 +0000http://portuguese-american-journal.com/?p=45095The Silicon Valley Portuguese Education & Culture Foundation (SVPECF) was launched to support Portuguese language education at the San Jose State University. Located in Silicon Valley, the newly founded support group replaces the Portuguese Studies Advisory Board which has served the Portuguese language and culture courses at the university. The goal is to attract more […]

]]>The Silicon Valley Portuguese Education & Culture Foundation (SVPECF) was launched to support Portuguese language education at the San Jose State University.

Located in Silicon Valley, the newly founded support group replaces the Portuguese Studies Advisory Board which has served the Portuguese language and culture courses at the university.

The goal is to attract more students and present them with the opportunity to learn a great international language at the university level, while maintaining the language alive within the local Portuguese community.

According to the initiative, students who learn Portuguese will to be more competitive on a global basis by improving their job opportunities. Mostly dedicated to supporting students of Portuguese and Brazilian heritage the effort will benefit the community at large.

Besides providing scholarships, SVPECF aims to strengthen the cultural enrichment opportunities for students through lectures, film presentations, cultural events, and supporting the Portuguese language collection at the Marin Luther King Library.

Portuguese is the language of Portugal and Brazil and the official langue of countries such as Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Sao Tome and Principe, and East Timor.

Spoken by about 240 million people, Portuguese is the sixth most spoken language in the world, where it occupies the third place as the most spoken European language, after English and Spanish. Alongside English and Spanish, Portuguese is also the main language spoken in the Americas.

]]>http://portuguese-american-journal.com/community-silicon-valley-portuguese-education-culture-foundation-san-jose-ca/feed/0FIRST Global: Team Portugal competing at the International Robot Olympics – Washington, DChttp://portuguese-american-journal.com/first-global-team-portugal-competing-at-the-international-robot-olympics-washington-dc/
http://portuguese-american-journal.com/first-global-team-portugal-competing-at-the-international-robot-olympics-washington-dc/#respondMon, 12 Jun 2017 23:37:49 +0000http://portuguese-american-journal.com/?p=44997A team of Portuguese high school students will travel from Portugal to participate in the inaugural International Robot Olympics to be hosted in Washington, DC, at Constitution Hall, July 16-18, to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge. Contestants from 160 countries will build robots revolving around access to clean water. The goal is to show […]

]]>A team of Portuguese high school students will travel from Portugal to participate in the inaugural International Robot Olympics to be hosted in Washington, DC, at Constitution Hall, July 16-18, to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge.

Contestants from 160 countries will build robots revolving around access to clean water. The goal is to show the leaders of tomorrow that by communicating, cooperating, and working together, using the tools of science and engineering, they can change the world.

According to former US Navy Admiral and Congressman, Joe Sestak, president of FIRST Global, the goal is to inspire the world’s youth to pursue careers in science and technology through the sport of robotics by promoting leadership and innovation in young people from all nations.

This year’s theme is based on one of the 14 Grand Challenges of Engineering identified by the US National Academy of Engineering, “access to clean water”, and will see two alliances of three teams each competing to remove contaminant particles from a simulated river.

The International Robot Olympics is an annual event where each year a competition will take place in a different country. Of the selected 30 finalists, 10 will receive first places. Other finalists will receive second and third places.

Team Portugal will be represented by four students, Rui Miguel de Padua Costa, Ruben Daniel Gonçalves Fernandes, João Marcelo Gaspar Azevedo, all from Agrupamento de Escolas Dr. Serafim in S. João da Madeira, Portugal. According to Team Portugal, like many other teens, they enjoy sports, motorcycles, and cars, but their love for robotics and technology is incomparable.

Although they have participated in other robotics competitions in Portugal individually, this is the first time they will be competing as a team, so during this journey, they have learned the value of teamwork.

“We, and the students of Team Portugal, would very much like to see a strong Portuguese-American presence at this event, cheering on the team as they take the stage, and play their games July 17-18, including at the Opening Ceremony the evening of July 16.” Admiral Sestak said. “It would be special for the Team Portugal kids to have cheers from the Portuguese attending,” he added.

The games will be played within Constitution Hall following the Opening Ceremony modeled after the Olympic Games. A Procession of Nations will take place with contestants parading to the middle of Constitution Hall, holding the flag of the country they represent.

Portugal is just one of the many Portuguese-speaking countries competing in this year’s competition, including Brazil, Mozambique, and Cape Verde.

The International Robot Olympics will be live-streamed around the world so that parents and the public at large can watch their respective teams compete.

Team Ambassadors will volunteer to make sure the students get where they need to be on time within Constitution Hall, and ensuring they feel comfortable during their first visit to America.

FIRST Global was founded by philanthropic inventor Dean Kamen, and is headed by former US Navy Admiral and Congressman Joe Sestak.

The event is free and open to the public. For questions on attendance or volunteering, contact: info@first.global.

]]>http://portuguese-american-journal.com/first-global-team-portugal-competing-at-the-international-robot-olympics-washington-dc/feed/0Today in History: Portuguese celebrate 43 years of constitutional democracy – Portugalhttp://portuguese-american-journal.com/today-in-history-portuguese-celebrate-43-years-of-constitutional-democracy-portugal/
http://portuguese-american-journal.com/today-in-history-portuguese-celebrate-43-years-of-constitutional-democracy-portugal/#respondTue, 25 Apr 2017 22:50:46 +0000http://portuguese-american-journal.com/?p=44729Since 1974 “Freedom Day” is celebrated in Portugal — April 25 – as a national holiday to mark the bloodless military coup, supported by the civilian population, bringing democracy and civil liberties to the Portuguese people. After almost five decades of dictatorship (1937-1974), the Carnation Revolution, ended the Estado Novo regime, the longest dictatorship in Europe, […]

]]>Since 1974 “Freedom Day” is celebrated in Portugal — April 25 – as a national holiday to mark the bloodless military coup, supported by the civilian population, bringing democracy and civil liberties to the Portuguese people.

After almost five decades of dictatorship (1937-1974), the Carnation Revolution, ended the Estado Novo regime, the longest dictatorship in Europe, changing the Portuguese political system from an authoritarian dictatorship to a democracy.

The revolution was undertaken by the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) led by General Antonio Spinola and other prominent civilian and army figures. In a matter of hours, General Spinola received the surrender of overthrown Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano who was forced into exile in Brazil.

Spinola took charge of a Provisional Government which promised to restore civil liberties and hold democratic general elections. Hundreds of political prisoners were released.

In 1974, more than half of Portugal’s government budget was spent with its armed forces engaged in wars in three of Portugal’s African colonies. The new regime implemented a swift decolonization program granting independence to Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Cape Verde Islands, Sao Tome and Principe, and Angola.

Over the course of the next decade a stable two party system was established. Soon after, in 1980, the archipelagos of Madeira and the Azores became autonomous regions to enjoy self-government.

Under the constitution of 1976, which established a parliamentary republic, Portugal has been governed by a constitutional democracy with a president, a prime minister, and a parliament elected in multiparty elections. The Portuguese constitution was amended in 1982, 1989, 1992, and 1997. More @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution

]]>http://portuguese-american-journal.com/today-in-history-portuguese-celebrate-43-years-of-constitutional-democracy-portugal/feed/0Book: ‘The Lusophone World’ by Sarah Ashby – Editor’s Notehttp://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-the-lusophone-world-by-sarah-ashby-editors-note/
http://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-the-lusophone-world-by-sarah-ashby-editors-note/#respondThu, 02 Mar 2017 02:05:07 +0000http://portuguese-american-journal.com/?p=43623Portugal’s European Union honeymoon has officially ended. It was the victim of a Europe-wide political and financial crisis and an unstable EU identity increasingly splintered along regional and economic fractures. What does this mean for the former ‘‘good student’’ of European democracy? The answer may lie in renewed Portuguese efforts to deepen and strengthen ties […]

]]>Portugal’s European Union honeymoon has officially ended. It was the victim of a Europe-wide political and financial crisis and an unstable EU identity increasingly splintered along regional and economic fractures. What does this mean for the former ‘‘good student’’ of European democracy? The answer may lie in renewed Portuguese efforts to deepen and strengthen ties with Lusophone countries across the globe, which since 1996 have been organized into a supranational organization called the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP). While Portugal’s marginality in relation to Europe might be emphasized in the corridors of Brussels, within the realm of the CPLP the former world power can once again see itself as existing at the center – geographically as well as from a historic-cultural perspective – of an extensive international milieu.

The Lusophone World: The Evolution of Portuguese National Narratives explores the dialectic between Portugal’s sense of identity and belonging in the EU and the CPLP. It provides an analysis of the manner in which Portugal’s institutional allegiances to both of these organizations have impacted the political, economic, and social fabric of the nation. The fact that Portugal is turning to its former colonies as alternate partners in trade, commerce, emigration, and development initiatives may not be evidence of straightforward estrangement from the European continent. More likely, Portugal appears to be riding a fresh wave of what it means to be modern in the European milieu. This new concept of “modernity,” related to rhetoric of hybridity and a self-professed position as interlocutor, could be evidence of a deeper understanding of the new tools needed to survive and prosper in a rapidly-changing European Union.

About the Author

Sarah Ashby obtained a Bachelor’s Degree from Middlebury College in 2010 and a Ph.D. from Brown University’s Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies in 2015. Her research interests focus on the history of post-colonial political, economic, and social relations in the Lusophone world. She is currently a Foreign Service Officer in São Paulo, Brazil.

Book Details

Title: The Lusophone World: The Evolution of Portuguese National Narratives

]]>The next volume of Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies (PLCS 30), dedicated to Transnational Africas: Visual, Material and Sonic Cultures of Lusophone Africa, focuses on the visual, material and sonic cultures of Lusophone Africa from the pre-colonial period to the contemporary moment.

The Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies, edited by Christopher Larkosh, Mario Pereira and Memory Holloway, is a peer-reviewed journal published by Tagus Press in the Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (USA).

With issues already dedicated to the literatures, cultures and other expressive traditions of Angola, Mozambique and Cape Verde, this upcoming issue allows us to revisit cultural production in general and visual, material and sonic culture in particular in these three countries and in São Tomé and Príncipe and Guinea-Bissau, as well as local areas, cross-border regions, political systems and historical periods that do not belong to neat categories and spaces where Portuguese enjoys official status. Although the Portuguese language, as well as literature and political discourse in Portuguese, continues to shape discussions on cultural identity within Lusophone Africa, visual, material and sonic culture questions the primacy of language and literature and provides alternative models for national identities and the division of space within the linguistic frameworks predicated by institutions such as the CPLP or Lusofonia. Moreover, the transnational circulation of art and artists, music and musicians, cinema and video, etc., encourages a more flexible and nuanced approach to (trans-) national identity. The study of visual, material and sonic cultural production complicates current understandings of Lusophone Africa that are based on colonial and post-independence national borders.

Themes to be addressed in this issue may include culture, language, identity, race, gender, citizenship, politics, postcolonial relations, technology and the arts, among other topics.

The deadline for submission is May 31, 2017. Submit articles in English or Portuguese. Submissions must conform to the journal’s guidelines. More details here.

]]>http://portuguese-american-journal.com/call-for-papers-portuguese-literary-cultural-studies-tagus-press/feed/0Nuno Cristo: A musical global voyage to Lusolands – By Richard Simashttp://portuguese-american-journal.com/nuno-cristo-a-musical-global-voyage-to-lusolands-by-richard-simas/
http://portuguese-american-journal.com/nuno-cristo-a-musical-global-voyage-to-lusolands-by-richard-simas/#respondSat, 03 Dec 2016 22:39:45 +0000http://portuguese-american-journal.com/?p=43444By Richard Simas, Contributor (*) Nuno Cristo is a multi-talented musical instrument maker, composer, singer, ethnomusicologist, and performer from Portugal living in Toronto, Canada, where he moved in 1985. His deeply timbered and soulful voice in Campos de Portugal sings a joyous pastoral anthem influenced by the South American Charango music he heard played by […]

Nuno Cristo is a multi-talented musical instrument maker, composer, singer, ethnomusicologist, and performer from Portugal living in Toronto, Canada, where he moved in 1985. His deeply timbered and soulful voice in Campos de Portugal sings a joyous pastoral anthem influenced by the South American Charango music he heard played by Andean groups in Portugal.

Inspired by the countryside and the optimistic agrarian reform that followed Portugal’s Carnation Revolution, Campos is one of the delightful selections on his ‘Travels in Lusomania’ disc. A pan flute calls, a horse neighs, bells jangle, and the traditional adufe frame-drum sets a beat for the soaring soprano saxophone’s melodic line as it glides over a sun-drenched rural landscape.

The journey to Lusolands with Nuno Cristo emerges from Portugal’s heartland and adventures far beyond in a listening experience that expands notions of both geography and time periods.

“I grew up in Mozambique where my parents were teachers and lived there until I was 13. There was lots of music in the house, all the Portuguese stuff that was forbidden during the dictatorship, songs from Sérgio Godinho, Zeca Afonso, and Zé Mário Branco. Zeca Afonso was able to connect with rural traditions and relate to rhythms from Angola.”

All these influences, in particular colonial Africa, were significant in offering Cristo an uninhibited and varied musical background that would later allow him to explore and create freely in his own compositions and arrangements as well as to construct the instruments capable of creating the sounds he wanted to hear.

“When I was young we had some African instruments at home that I fooled around with, but I had no training. My first instrument was a Melódica. I didn’t really take any lessons until 1977, after I was back in Portugal. I listened to Neil Young and all the music that was happening at the time.” Life in post-

I asked the nightingale
Who taught you to sing
It was country folk, he told me
When they were out sowing

Sing, sing, little bird
Never stop singing
That these folk don’t tire
When they are working

(Nuno Cristo,
Fields of Portugal)

colonial Portugal was in a period of chaotic transition. Cristo studied psychology and worked briefly for a family publishing business, but ultimately decided to pursue music. He wanted to play instruments that were unavailable in stores so he had to make them. “I always loved the bagpipes, and I made one with the help of a wood turner. Of course, it didn’t work very well and finally I found one in the region of Trás-os-Montes that I learned to play.”

A year later, Cristo was playing bagpipes professionally with the theatre group O Bando in a play about the Middle Ages. Once in Canada, Cristo would later adroitly mix traditional Portuguese sounds and styles with African and other world musics in his own compositions.

“I wanted to develop the technique of playing the music. That’s what really provoked me to make instruments.” In the basement of his home in Toronto’s Little Portugal, one room serves for playing his collection of string instruments and teaching a group of cavaquinho players. The other room is a tiny workshop where he builds instruments using the exotic woods that are stacked on a shelf. Cristo studied instrument making for two years at the Ontario College of Art.

He handles a fret board currently under construction and exhibits one of the cavaquinho’s sold at Saudade, a Portuguese products store on Dundas Street a few blocks from his home.

He has also made several of the round-bodied Portuguese guitars played in Fado music, a variety of mbiras, the thumb piano from Zimbabwe, and a Valikora a hybrid version of an instrument from Madagascar. “I spent most of my life learning about musical instruments, how they’re built and can be played. As an instrument maker, I can get inside an instrument to understand its every nuance and discover new ways to produce sound. This is the foundation of my work as a composer and musician.”

Although Nuno Cristo’s musical vision draws from many musical influences, most of his globetrotting takes place close to home. “Toronto is an interesting place to live because you can meet people from all over the world, play music with them, learn about their cultures.” He formed a group called Rovambira to play mbira music from Zimbabwe and explore the similarities between that music and Portuguese Fado. It is fascinating to hear the traditional Portuguese guitar and the African mbira form duets on pieces such as fado batido, minha chuinga, and chakwi from his first disc ‘minha terra bansambira’.

On a homemade single reed bagpipe he evokes an exotic snake charmer’s tune in jota, the traditional Iberian dance. The full recording of ‘minha terra bansambira’ is the result of several years of work with his ensemble Alvorado where Chinese flutes join with frog sounds, bagpipes, crickets, and cavaquinhos to explore a delightfully varied and hybrid music. Cristo visits areas of traditional African and Portuguese music with a singular ease and liberty. He is both at home and in far-away places, a musical artist weaving a contemporary folk vision with finesse and soul.

Nuno Cristo’s second disc, Travels in Lusomania, offers the listener exactly what the title promises, a kaleidoscope of imaginative musical journeys through Portuguese-speaking lands. Each song is a port of entry to an enchanting, multi-faceted, and surprising world. His musical project is imaginative and whimsical rather than world-music reporting, an extravagant voyage where tradition and invention mingle freely in mutual inspiration. The results are beautiful.

Cristo’s gentle tenor voice, solo or paired with female voices, sings sweet, somber, and wistful tunes such as senhora dos remédios with resonance and balanced dramatic effect. The original approaches to each of the 11 tunes avoid the clichés one might encounter when combining traditional sources and exotic instruments from different countries. We hear bagpipes, African mbira (thumb piano), seashells, bone rattles, goats bleating, the traditional adufe drum, bird sounds, horse whinnies, and a delightful soprano saxophone that glides playfully through the melodies. Is this Portuguese music? Wonderfully so! Cristo twists, revisits, and embellishes the tunes he has collected from the rural back roads of Portugal, as well others such as the traditional Azorean Terra de Bravo that he reshapes into a danceable upbeat piece that resembles a coladeira from Cabo Verde.

Nuno Cristo’s passion to explore the origins and evolutions of music and the instruments that create it has led him recently to complete a Master’s degree in ethnomusicology at York University. His thesis discussed the history and transformation of the Portuguese guitar associated with Fado music. Currently he is writing a paper on the cavaquinho in the Azores and would like to do a doctoral thesis on the commercialization of the ukulele as it moved across the world. He has written about the influence of Indian music on Portuguese music and the evolution of the banjo from its likely origin in Africa, passing through Europe, and on to the mountain music of Appalachia.

From composing, singing, and playing a wide variety of music to handcrafting fine instruments and academic research, all of Nuno Cristo’s work bear’s the mark of a meticulous and curious craftsman in constant pursuit of answers to his many questions. His world is more of a busy workshop than an ethno-musical museum. Essential to his vision is the quest to discover how this music has passed through many “Lusolands” and can be continually reformed to make it new.

His impulse is always to make a bridge to other cultures, not only in the Portuguese community. Although he has performed with Canadian pop star Nelly Furtado, Nuno Cristo is a quiet and discreet man. If you want to hear him play in Toronto you have to keep your ears open. As well as with others, he performs with his ensemble Anima Fado in a variety of events and venues around Toronto.

Listen to Nuno Cristo’s music and see his instruments here.
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(*) is a free-lance writer with a background in literature and the performing arts, in particular contemporary music. He lives in Montreal and contributes regularly to contemporary arts and literary reviews. His work has been published in Europe and in North America, including Canada’s Journey Prize anthology and a winner of a Fiddlehead Fiction Prize. He is a frequent collaborator for Musicworks magazine in Toronto.

]]>http://portuguese-american-journal.com/nuno-cristo-a-musical-global-voyage-to-lusolands-by-richard-simas/feed/0Lisbon: Portuguese language to expand to 400 million speakers globally – Portugalhttp://portuguese-american-journal.com/lisbon-portuguese-language-to-expand-to-400-million-speakers-globally-portugal/
http://portuguese-american-journal.com/lisbon-portuguese-language-to-expand-to-400-million-speakers-globally-portugal/#respondThu, 17 Nov 2016 22:56:01 +0000http://portuguese-american-journal.com/?p=43477By Carolina Matos, Editor (*) According to the New Atlas of the Portuguese Language [Novo Atlas da Língua Portuguesa], published in Lisbon this week, in 2100 the Portuguese language is projected to be spoken globally by 400 million. Published in a Portuguese-English edition, by the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE), the book was presented in […]

According to the New Atlas of the Portuguese Language [Novo Atlas da Língua Portuguesa], published in Lisbon this week, in 2100 the Portuguese language is projected to be spoken globally by 400 million.

Published in a Portuguese-English edition, by the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE), the book was presented in Lisbon this week in a ceremony presided by the Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs Augusto Santos Silva.

The publication, cosponsored by the Camões Institute and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was co-authored by Luís Antero, Rector of the ISCTE, and faculty members Fernando Luís Machado and José Paulo Esperança.

Researched based, the edition presents updated information relating to Portuguese as a global language spoken by 263 million (2015) in Europe, South America, Africa and Asia. According to the book, in 2050 Portuguese will be spoken by an estimated 390 million and in 2100 by a projected 400 million.

The book includes a wide range of geographical, economic, financial, commercial, human mobility, geostrategic indicators, culture and science, targeting audiences in the Community of Portuguese Language Countries [Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa/ CPLP] which includes Portugal (including Madeira and the Azores), Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and East Timor.

The New Atlas of the Portuguese Language projects that by 2100, the former Portuguese colonies of Angola and Mozambique will account for the bulk of Portuguese speakers in the world, a combined population of 266 million,topping Brazil with a protected 200 million Portuguese speakers in 2100.

Data collected in 2012 has revealed that Portuguese is the fourth most spoken language globally after Mandarin, Spanish, and English. The same data also revealed that Portuguese is the fifth most used language on the Internet after English, Mandarin, Spanish and Arabic. Portuguese is also the third most used language on Facebook and the fifth on Tweeter.

Currently, Portuguese is the third most widely spoken European language, after English and Spanish. More people around the world speak Portuguese as their native language than French, German, Italian or Japanese.

The New Atlas of the Portuguese Language includes language variation samples from writers from the eight Portuguese-speaking countries forming the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP). Created in 1996, CPLP represents the community of nations where Portuguese if the official language,

Portuguese is now recognized as a working language by European Union, the Mercosul, the African Union, the Organization of Ibero-American States, and the Organization of American States, among other world organizations.

A motion was approved recently to add Portuguese as the 7th official language of the United Nations in addition to Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish. The motion was presented early this month at the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries summit staged in Brasilia (Brazil), with the participation of leaders from the eight CPLP countries where Portuguese is the official language. The motion was supported by António Guterres, the newly elected United Nations Secretary-General starting January 1, 2017. May 5th is the International Day of the Portuguese Language and Culture.

(*) Carolina Matos,is the founder and editor of the Portuguese American Journal online. She was the editor–in-chief of The Portuguese American Journal,in print, from 1985 to 1995. From 1995 to 2010, she was a consultant for Lisbon based Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD). She graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts and a Master’s Degree in English and Education from Brown University and holds a Doctorate in Education from Lesley University. She has been an adjunct professor at Lesley University where she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses. In 2004, Carolina Matos was honored with the Comenda da Ordem do Infante D. Henrique, presented by Jorge Sampaio, President of Portugal.

]]>http://portuguese-american-journal.com/lisbon-portuguese-language-to-expand-to-400-million-speakers-globally-portugal/feed/0Book: ‘New Approaches to Lusophone Culture’ – Editor’s Notehttp://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-new-approaches-to-lusophone-culture-editors-note/
http://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-new-approaches-to-lusophone-culture-editors-note/#respondMon, 05 Sep 2016 14:00:12 +0000http://portuguese-american-journal.com/?p=43731The history of Brazil is marked by the transfer of the Portuguese crown to Rio de Janeiro and the declaration of its independence in 1822 whereas African colonies underwent the Colonial War in the 1960s and 1970s in the context of the Portuguese Estado Novo, while Macau, which was the last European Colony in Asia, […]

]]>The history of Brazil is marked by the transfer of the Portuguese crown to Rio de Janeiro and the declaration of its independence in 1822 whereas African colonies underwent the Colonial War in the 1960s and 1970s in the context of the Portuguese Estado Novo, while Macau, which was the last European Colony in Asia, became independent in 1999. In the wake of colonization and amidst the increasing impacts of globalization, Portuguese-speaking countries have formed national and supra-national alliances beyond the Lusophone community: Portugal with the EU, Brazil as part of Mercosur, Macau with China, not to mention Goa’s annexation to India.

In this context, cultural production has been marked by negotiation with the colonial past, independence in Africa and Asia and the end of dictatorship in Portugal and Brazil, changes in gender relations and dialogue with commercial genres associated with US culture. This negotiation is found in literature and films through the perpetuation or problematization of discourses symptomatic of the colonial legacy, which informs representation of historical moments as well as their aftermath. Likewise, historical and subjective memory of the dictatorship in Portugal (1933-1974) and Brazil (1964-1985) appears as a recurring theme in Portuguese-speaking culture.

While there have been discussions about how Portuguese-speaking Asian and African countries have negotiated the processes and consequences of independence and how Portugal and Brazil have experienced the transition from military dictatorship to democracy, the cultural responses from Lusophone countries to these transformations remain largely unexplored. Especially scant attention has been paid to cultural products from Lusophone Asia and issues regarding gender in postcolonial Africa. Moreover, Portuguese-speaking productions of film genres associated with Hollywood, in particular Science Fiction are often overlooked. Addressing those areas in Lusophone studies foregrounds original approaches to the exploration of the diversity of Portuguese-language culture and its ongoing changes in a globalized era.

This book takes original and unique approaches to explore a selected body of Portuguese-language cultural production from four different continents. Such a broad geographical scope allows exploration of a variety of genres, and subject matter that reflects the cultural diversity of the Lusophone community while simultaneously situating Portuguese-language cultural production within a globalized and postcolonial context. By foregrounding cultural diversity within the Lusophone community, the study uncovers the ways in which Portuguese-language cultural production has registered and indeed helped to transform the social-historical contexts to which it belongs. This book thus examines Portuguese-speaking cultural products not only in its national and regional context but also as part of a wider supra-national community such as the Lusophone one, which is characterized by a colonial legacy that is still kept alive by language and culture.

New Approaches to Lusophone Culture is an important book for Lusophone and Iberian and Latin American studies and cultural studies in general. Contributors to this book are listed here.

About the Editor

Natália Pinazza’s research interests centre on Postcolonial theory and Lusophone/Latin American cultural studies with a particular focus on Argentina and Brazil. She completed an ORSA funded PhD at the University of Bath, UK. She studied Portuguese and Italian as an undergraduate at the University of São Paulo, Brazil before completing a MA (funded by Academic Excellence Awards) at the University of Bath, UK. She has previously taught language and content modules at the University of Sheffield and contributed to undergraduate teaching at the University of Bath. She undertook research (March- June 2012) funded by UNESCO in indigenous visual cultures at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She has given papers at conferences in Europe, Australia, and the Americas. A list of her publications is here.

]]>http://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-new-approaches-to-lusophone-culture-editors-note/feed/0Language: President Rebelo de Sousa to revise Orthographic Agreement – Portugalhttp://portuguese-american-journal.com/language-president-rebelo-de-sousa-to-revise-orthographic-agreement-portugal/
http://portuguese-american-journal.com/language-president-rebelo-de-sousa-to-revise-orthographic-agreement-portugal/#respondFri, 20 May 2016 14:10:33 +0000http://portuguese-american-journal.com/?p=42343The new president elect of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has stated that he is open to revise the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990. The main purpose of the agreement was to create a unified orthography for the Portuguese language in the countries where Portuguese is the official language, most notably the variants between […]

]]>The new president elect of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has stated that he is open to revise the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990.

The main purpose of the agreement was to create a unified orthography for the Portuguese language in the countries where Portuguese is the official language, most notably the variants between Brazil and Portugal.

The signatories were the member states of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) which included Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, and São Tomé and Príncipe.

The agreement undersigned in Lisbon, on December 16, 1990, and implemented in 2008, has been met with controversy and resistance in the countries involved.

Of the signatories, while Brazil, Portugal, São Tome and Príncipe and Cape Verde have ratified the accord, Angola and Mozambique have declined to endorse the agreement.

In Portugal, as recently as May 11, the National Association of Portuguese Teachers and several members of the Citizens Against the Orthographic Accord, a group demanding a national referendum on the mater, have appealed for the Portuguese courts to annul the agreement.

They argue that changes are a capitulation to Brazilian Portuguese, while proponents counter the move will make the language more uniform globally.

In 1990, as a private citizen, President Rebelo de Sousa had signed a manifest, along with 400 other Portuguese personalities, against the controversial orthographic accord. Rebelo de Sousa was sworn president on March 9.

Portuguese is the fifth most spoken language in the world. An estimated 280 million people speak Portuguese worldwide, of which 202 million are in Brazil, 24.7 million in Angola, 24.6 million in Mozambique and 10.8 million in Portugal.

The Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) celebrates May 5ththe International Day of the Portuguese Language and Culture.

]]>http://portuguese-american-journal.com/language-president-rebelo-de-sousa-to-revise-orthographic-agreement-portugal/feed/0May 5th – International Day of the Portuguese Language and Culture – CPLPhttp://portuguese-american-journal.com/may-5th-international-day-of-the-portuguese-language-and-culture-cplp-2/
http://portuguese-american-journal.com/may-5th-international-day-of-the-portuguese-language-and-culture-cplp-2/#respondThu, 05 May 2016 15:01:19 +0000http://portuguese-american-journal.com/?p=42217The Lusophone world is celebrating today the International Day of the Portuguese Language and Culture. The celebrations, which were first held in May 5, 2013, will take place in about five dozen countries. The initiative was launched by the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) during the 14th CPLP Council of Ministers meeting, in Cape […]

]]>The Lusophone world is celebrating today the International Day of the Portuguese Language and Culture. The celebrations, which were first held in May 5, 2013, will take place in about five dozen countries.

The initiative was launched by the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) during the 14th CPLP Council of Ministers meeting, in Cape Verde, in June of 2009, when it was agreed to dedicate May 5th to celebrating the common linguistic and cultural ties which unite the eight countries that belong to the CPLP.

Created in 1996, CPLP represents the community of nations where Portuguese if the official language, an estimated 280 million people, including Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe and East Timor.

Portuguese is the third most widely spoken European language, after English and Spanish, with some 240 million users worldwide. More people around the world speak Portuguese as their native language than French, German, Italian or Japanese.

Portuguese is now recognized as a working language by European Union, the Mercosul, the African Union, the Organization of Ibero-American States, and the Organization of American States, among other world organizations.

]]>http://portuguese-american-journal.com/may-5th-international-day-of-the-portuguese-language-and-culture-cplp-2/feed/0Book: ‘Return Fligths’ by Jarita Davis – Editor’s Notehttp://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-return-fligths-by-jarita-davis-editors-note/
http://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-return-fligths-by-jarita-davis-editors-note/#respondTue, 22 Mar 2016 22:03:17 +0000http://portuguese-american-journal.com/?p=41486These poems — varying from narrative to imagist to lyrical — reflect the “sodade” of Cape Verdean culture that is shaped by separation and longing — longing for the home that has been left behind and for loved ones who have departed. Cape Verdean communities extend beyond national boundaries and are paradoxically independent of place, […]

]]>These poems — varying from narrative to imagist to lyrical — reflect the “sodade” of Cape Verdean culture that is shaped by separation and longing — longing for the home that has been left behind and for loved ones who have departed. Cape Verdean communities extend beyond national boundaries and are paradoxically independent of place, even when inspired by it. Return Flights marks a turning point for Cape Verdean American culture, one in which a partially forgotten past becomes a starting point for possible futures, both of new transoceanic contacts and of new reinventions of culture.

“Jarita Davis’s poems work an uncanny spell on the reader. Her language is fully contoured to form the seamless parade of images, lush and deep, that bring this book to life. When one finishes Return Flights, he or she will emerge with salt air in the lungs and Island sun in the eyes. There is a wealth in this book that is rare. This poet takes you out of your world and into another so deftly, so beautifully, you will feel as though you have lived in each one of these poems.”—Frank X. Gaspar

About the Author

Jarita Davis is a poet and fiction writer with a BA in classics from Brown University and an MA and a PhD from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. She was the writer in residence at the Nantucket Historical Association and has received fellowships from the Mellon Mayes program, Cave Canem, Hedgebrook, and the Disquiet International Literary Program in Lisbon. Her work has appeared in the Southwestern Review, Historic Nantucket, Cave Canem Anthologies, Crab Orchard Review, Plainsongs, Tuesday: An Art Project, Verdad Magazine, and the Cape Cod Poetry Review. She lives and writes in West Falmouth, Massachusetts.

]]>http://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-return-fligths-by-jarita-davis-editors-note/feed/0Travel: SATA completes rebranding with extreme makeover – Azoreshttp://portuguese-american-journal.com/travel-sata-completes-rebranding-with-extreme-makeover-azores/
http://portuguese-american-journal.com/travel-sata-completes-rebranding-with-extreme-makeover-azores/#respondWed, 21 Oct 2015 12:01:14 +0000http://portuguese-american-journal.com/?p=40415The Azores based airline ‘SATA International’ has changed its brand name to ‘Azores Airlines’ and has unveiled a new livery. As part of the move, SATA has leased two A-330 aircraft, which display the new name, a blue sperm whale on each side, and a green whale tail on the its tail. The first of […]

]]>The Azores based airline ‘SATA International’ has changed its brand name to ‘Azores Airlines’ and has unveiled a new livery.

As part of the move, SATA has leased two A-330 aircraft, which display the new name, a blue sperm whale on each side, and a green whale tail on the its tail.

The first of the two leased aircraft, with a 280 passenger capacity, was presented in Manchester, UK. The aircraft, which is seven years old and was pre-owned by a Jordanian company, is expected to start servicing the routes to Boston and Canada as early as December 15. The leasing will cost the company 350,000 euros ($396,000) to 400,000 euros ($453,000) a month.

The goal is to enhance the carrier’s domestic links between the Azores and Portugal mainland and to strengthen its transatlantic flights to Canada and the United States. The airline also plans to extend its flights to Cape Verde, Canaries and Madeira markets.

Once the main flights provider between the Azores and Portugal mainland, the newly rebranded Azores Airlines will now face domestic competition against low-cost budget carriers Ryanair and easyJet. However, for the time being, the Azores Airlines will remain the only commercial airline providing direct flights from the United States and Canada to the Azores. SATA International has operated two tour operators, the SATA Express in Canada and Azores Express in the United States.

Managed by the SATA Group, the company was originally founded in 1941, as a private corporation, under the name ‘Sociedade Açoreana de Transportes Aéreos’ (SATA). In 1980, SATA became state-owned and run by the Government of the Azores in partnership with state-owned TAP Air Portugal, changing its name to ‘SATA Air Azores.’ In 1998 the company was renamed ‘SATA International.’

Based in Ponta Delgada, São Miguel island, the carrier operates passenger, cargo and mail services on an extensive regional network to destinations across the archipelago. It provides its own maintenance and handling services and manages four regional airports. Its main base is at João Paulo II Airport, Ponta Delgada. The airline has an estimated 1.300 employees (2014). (Correction from previous PAJ statement that “The airline has 545 employees”).

]]>http://portuguese-american-journal.com/travel-sata-completes-rebranding-with-extreme-makeover-azores/feed/0Book: ‘Creole Societies in the Portuguese Colonial Empire’ – Editor’s Notehttp://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-creole-societies-in-the-portuguese-colonial-empire-editors-note/
http://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-creole-societies-in-the-portuguese-colonial-empire-editors-note/#respondThu, 15 Oct 2015 19:09:57 +0000http://portuguese-american-journal.com/?p=40824In 2004, a conference was held at King’s College London to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Charles Boxer. The theme of the conference was the development of the culturally mixed ‘Portuguese’ societies in Asia, Africa and America, which reflected Boxer’s own interest in the social history of Portugal’s overseas empire. Although the conference […]

]]>In 2004, a conference was held at King’s College London to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Charles Boxer. The theme of the conference was the development of the culturally mixed ‘Portuguese’ societies in Asia, Africa and America, which reflected Boxer’s own interest in the social history of Portugal’s overseas empire.

Although the conference papers were published by Bristol University, this volume is long out of print and the outstanding quality of many of the contributions has made it necessary for this collection to be republished.

Portuguese overseas expansion over a period of five centuries led to the formation of many mixed or creole communities which drew culturally not only on Portugal, but also on indigenous societies. This cross-cultural interaction gave rise to a creole ‘Portuguese’ identity that in many cases outlasted the formal empire itself.

Reflecting upon the main tenets of Boxer’s work, this collection provides a broad geographical perspective upon areas of Portuguese presence in Guinea, Cape Verde, Angola, São Tomé, Brazil and Goa. The chapters cover a wide range of social strata, including plantation slave and maroon communities, private settler-traders and pirates, indigenous trade-diasporas, and Luso-African, Luso-Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian groups, as well as the formation of Creole elites against the background of shifting racial, gender, ethnic, linguistic and religious boundaries. As such, this collection represents an exercise in ‘subaltern’ history which shows that the informal social relations were often more important in the long term than the formal structures of empire.

About the EditorsPhilip J. Havik received his PhD in Social Sciences from Leiden University, The Netherlands. He is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (IHMT/UNL) since 2013, while he also teaches at the IHMT and at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH/UNL) in Lisbon. He is also visiting professor at the Faculty of History of the Universidade de Brasília. His multidisciplinary research centers on public health, tropical medicine, colonial administration, post-colonial states, economic development, female entrepreneurship and cultural brokerage, with a focus on Portuguese speaking Africa and Guinea Bissau in particular.

Malyn Newitt taught at the universities of Rhodesia and Exeter, where he became Deputy Vice Chancellor. From 1998 until he retired in 2005, he was the Charles Boxer Professor of History at King’s College London. A specialist in Portuguese colonial history, he is the author of Portuguese Settlement on the Zambesi, Portugal in Africa, São Tomé and Príncipe with Tony Hodges, History of Mozambique, East Africa (Portuguese documents in translation), A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion and War, Revolution and Society in the Rio de la Plata.Book Details

]]>http://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-creole-societies-in-the-portuguese-colonial-empire-editors-note/feed/0Exhibit: ‘The Lure of the Spindle: The Portuguese in early 20th Century Lowell’ – UMass Lowellhttp://portuguese-american-journal.com/exhibit-the-lure-of-the-spindle-the-portuguese-in-early-20th-century-lowell-umass-lowell/
http://portuguese-american-journal.com/exhibit-the-lure-of-the-spindle-the-portuguese-in-early-20th-century-lowell-umass-lowell/#respondMon, 03 Aug 2015 21:14:50 +0000http://portuguese-american-journal.com/?p=39748The University of Massachusetts Lowell Saab-Pedroso Center for Portuguese Culture and Research, the Center for Lowell History, and the Lowell National Historical Park announce the opening of the Community Exhibit “The Lure of the Spindle: The Portuguese in early 20th Century Lowell” for Thursday, August 6, at 5:30 p.m. Sponsored by Mass Humanities, the state-affiliate […]

]]>The University of Massachusetts Lowell Saab-Pedroso Center for Portuguese Culture and Research, the Center for Lowell History, and the Lowell National Historical Park announce the opening of the Community Exhibit “The Lure of the Spindle: The Portuguese in early 20th Century Lowell” for Thursday, August 6, at 5:30 p.m.

Sponsored by Mass Humanities, the state-affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the community exhibit is open to the public with reception to follow. Parking is available at the Downes Garage, corner of French and John Streets.

The Holy Ghost Marching Band of Lowell will perform briefly at Boarding House Park (next to the museum) at 5:30 p.m. and lead the visitors to the entrance to the exhibit, where they will perform the Portuguese and American national anthems.

The exhibit will be on view at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum, 115 John St., Lowell, MA, from August 6 to December 1, 2015. Other partners in this project are the Tsongas Industrial History Center, the Lowell Historical Society, and the International Institute of New England, with additional documentation from the American Folklife Center and Saint Anthony’s Parish.

The exhibit was built around immigration documents including letters, passports, photographs and visas that were recently uncovered inside Lowell City Hall and donated to UMass Lowell. These materials – combined with other historical and contemporary collections of photographs, maps, city records and cultural and religious artifacts – tell the stories of Portuguese laborers and their families, revealing the challenges they faced and the choices they made in the mill city.

“The exhibit is designed for two audiences: for the local Portuguese-American community as a way to bring them together, tell their stories and celebrate their heritage, and for the general public, particularly school groups, to share this rich history with them,” said Martha Mayo, director of the Center for Lowell History.

Arriving in Lowell at the turn of the 20th century, many Portuguese people settled in the city’s Back Central, Chapel Hill and City Hall neighborhoods. In keeping with local regulations, young immigrants were required to remain in school until age 16 and show proof of their age in order to work in the city’s textile mills, a socially progressive concept intended to ensure an educated populace. Many of these Portuguese immigrants worked alongside immigrants from other countries as spinners, weavers and loom mechanics, helping to bring the Appleton, Massachusetts, Merrimack, Tremont and Suffolk mills in Lowell to prominence. By 1907, laborers built St. Anthony of Padua Parish on Lowell’s Central Street, where it became a focal point for the area’s Portuguese community.

The Boott Cotton Mills Museum is open to the public daily from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission to “The Lure of the Spindle” is free; admission to the entire museum is $6 for adults, $4 for seniors age 62 and older, and $3 for students and youth age 6 to 16. Children age 6 and younger may enter for free.

Established in 2013, the Saab-Pedroso Center for Portuguese Culture and Research, Prof. Frank F. Sousa, Program Director, offers Portuguese language and culture courses with the objective of establishing a minor and a Bachelor of Arts in Portuguese at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

UMass Lowellis a national research university located on a high-energy campus in the heart of a global community. The university offers its more than 17,000 students bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in business, education, engineering, fine arts, health, humanities, sciences and social sciences. UMass Lowell delivers high-quality educational programs, vigorous hands-on learning and personal attention from leading faculty and staff, all of which prepare graduates to be ready for work, for life and for all the world offers.

]]>http://portuguese-american-journal.com/exhibit-the-lure-of-the-spindle-the-portuguese-in-early-20th-century-lowell-umass-lowell/feed/0Book: ‘Power and Corruption in the Early Modern Portuguese World’ – Editor’s Notehttp://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-power-and-corruption-in-the-early-modern-portuguese-world-editors-note/
http://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-power-and-corruption-in-the-early-modern-portuguese-world-editors-note/#respondFri, 10 Jul 2015 15:31:17 +0000http://portuguese-american-journal.com/?p=37676Encompassing numerous territories across four different continents, Portugal’s early modern empire depended upon a vast and complex bureaucracy, yet colonial power did not reside solely in the centralized state. In a masterful reconceptualization of the functioning of empire, Erik Lars Myrup’s Power and Corruption in the Early Modern Portuguese World argues that beneath the surface […]

]]>Encompassing numerous territories across four different continents, Portugal’s early modern empire depended upon a vast and complex bureaucracy, yet colonial power did not reside solely in the centralized state. In a masterful reconceptualization of the functioning of empire, Erik Lars Myrup’s Power and Corruption in the Early Modern Portuguese World argues that beneath the surface of formal government, an intricate web of interpersonal relationships played a key role in binding together the Portuguese empire.

Myrup draws on archival research in Portugal, Spain, Brazil, and China to demonstrate how informal networks of power and patronage offered a crucial means of navigating – or circumventing – the serpentine paths of the governmental hierarchy.

Populated by a host of colorful characters, from backland explorers to colonial magistrates, Power and Corruption in the Early Modern Portuguese World demonstrates how informal social connections both magnified and diminished the power of the colonial state. If such systems contributed to corruption and fraud, they also facilitated effective cross-cultural exchange and ensured the survival of empire in times of crisis and decline. Myrup has produced a truly global study that sheds new light on the influence of interpersonal networks on the administration of a vast overseas empire.

About the Author

Erik Lars Myrup is assistant professor of history at the University of Kentucky. His articles and reviews have appeared in The Americas, Portuguese Studies, Itinerario, and the Hispanic American Historical Review.

]]>http://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-power-and-corruption-in-the-early-modern-portuguese-world-editors-note/feed/0Book: ‘Emigration and the Sea’ – Editor’s Notehttp://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-emigration-and-the-sea-editors-note/
http://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-emigration-and-the-sea-editors-note/#respondTue, 30 Jun 2015 21:24:27 +0000http://portuguese-american-journal.com/?p=37667Today Portuguese is the seventh most widely spoken language in the world and Brazil is a new economic powerhouse. Both phenomena result from the Portuguese ‘Discoveries’ of the 15th and 16th centuries, and the Catholic missions that planted Portuguese communities in every continent. Some were part of the Portuguese empire but many survived independently under […]

]]>Today Portuguese is the seventh most widely spoken language in the world and Brazil is a new economic powerhouse. Both phenomena result from the Portuguese ‘Discoveries’ of the 15th and 16th centuries, and the Catholic missions that planted Portuguese communities in every continent. Some were part of the Portuguese empire but many survived independently under other rulers with their own Creole languages and indigenized Portuguese culture. In the 19th and 20th centuries these were joined by millions of economic migrants who established Portuguese settlements in Europe, North America, Venezuela and South Africa – and in less likely places, including Bermuda, Guyana and Hawaii.

Interwoven within this global history of the diaspora are stories of the Portuguese who left mainland Portugal and the islands, the lives of the Sephardic Jews, the African slaves imported into the Atlantic Islands and Brazil and the Goans who later spread along the imperial highways of Portugal and Britain. Much of Portugal’s contribution to science and the arts, as well as its influence in the modern world, can be attributed to the members of these widely scattered Portuguese communities, and these are given their due in Newitt’s engrossing volume

About the Author
Malyn Newitt is Professor of History in the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, King’s College, London and author of A History of Mozambique, Portugal in European and World History, A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668 and Portugal in West Africa 1415-1670.

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Title: Emigration and the Sea: An Alternative Historyof Portugal and the Portuguese

]]>http://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-emigration-and-the-sea-editors-note/feed/0Book: ‘Selected Poems’ by Corsino Fortes – Editor’s Notehttp://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-selected-poems-by-corsino-fortes-editors-note/
http://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-selected-poems-by-corsino-fortes-editors-note/#respondThu, 07 May 2015 19:41:54 +0000http://portuguese-american-journal.com/?p=38718Concerned with giving voice to Cape Verdean life, Fortes writes in Cape Verdean Creole – and not just standard Portuguese – a powerful statement reinforcing the islands’ distinctive African nature. However, his poems are often written from the perspective of an exile – and themes of exile and redemptive return recur in his work. This […]

]]>Concerned with giving voice to Cape Verdean life, Fortes writes in Cape Verdean Creole – and not just standard Portuguese – a powerful statement reinforcing the islands’ distinctive African nature. However, his poems are often written from the perspective of an exile – and themes of exile and redemptive return recur in his work. This collection introduces English readers to Fortes, and the poet’s beautiful and unique use of language. Though not overtly political, the images in these poems reverberate with approaching renewal – drums surround the island, dead caravels await revival, children scatter seeds near the quiet strings of instruments. Growing out of a Modernist tradition yet composing with a distinctly singular vision, Fortes excavates the gut, heart, and mind, giving us vivid and often hallucinatory glimpses of the land, sea, and people of Cape Verde. His poems become earth-and word-scapes rooted in the land and the body. This first substantial English-language collection, selected and evocatively interpreted by Sean O’Brien and Daniel Hahn, pulls from Fortes’ entire body of work.

About the AuthorCorsino Fortes is a poet and a diplomat. Born on the Cape Verdean island of São Vicente in 1933, his early work appeared in Claridade (Clarity), a journal that defined Cape Verdean literary identity from the later 1930s to 1960. Fortes’ first full poetry collection Pão & Fonema (Bread & Phoneme) was published in 1974. In 1986 he published Árvore e Tambor (Tree and Drum). He finished what he had long seen as a trilogy in 2001 with Pedras de Sol & Substância which was collected with the previous two books under the title A Cabeça Calva de Deus (The Bald Head of God). The poet’s use of Cape Verdean Creole – and not just standard Portuguese – is a powerful statement reinforcing the idea of the islands’ distinctive African nature. Fortes studied in Portugal and spent much of his life abroad on diplomatic service – most notably in Angola and Lisbon.

]]>http://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-selected-poems-by-corsino-fortes-editors-note/feed/0Book: ‘Portuguese Film 1930-1960’ – Editor’s Notehttp://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-portuguese-film-1930-1960-editors-note/
http://portuguese-american-journal.com/book-portuguese-film-1930-1960-editors-note/#respondThu, 23 Apr 2015 14:37:06 +0000http://portuguese-american-journal.com/?p=37673‘Portuguese Film, 1930-1960: The Staging of the New State Regime’ provides groundbreaking analysis of Portuguese feature films produced in the first three decades of the New State (Estado Novo), a right-wing totalitarian regime that lasted between 1933 and 1974. These films, sponsored by the National Propaganda Institute (Secretariado Nacional de Propaganda), convey a conservative image […]

]]>‘Portuguese Film, 1930-1960: The Staging of the New State Regime’ provides groundbreaking analysis of Portuguese feature films produced in the first three decades of the New State (Estado Novo), a right-wing totalitarian regime that lasted between 1933 and 1974. These films, sponsored by the National Propaganda Institute (Secretariado Nacional de Propaganda), convey a conservative image of both mainland Portugal and the country’s overseas African colonies (Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and St. Thomas and Principe). The films about the mainland emphasize traditional values, the importance of obedience to authorities and a strict division of gender roles, whereby women are relegated to the domestic sphere. The Portuguese countryside, where age-old customs and a strong social hierarchy prevailed, is presented in these movies as a model for the rest of the country. The films about the colonies, in turn, underline the benefits of the Portuguese presence in Africa and portray the colonized as docile subjects to Portuguese rule.

The book includes chapter summaries in the introduction, in-depth analyses of the most important Portuguese films produced between 1930 and 1960, a discussion of the main topics of Portuguese cinema from the New State, and a comprehensive bibliography that guides students who wish to read further on a specific topic. First published in Portuguese to wide acclaim, Portuguese Film, 1930-1960: The Staging of the New State Regime fills a gap in English-language scholarship on the history of the national cinema of the Iberian Peninsula. Films covered include Fátima, Land of Faith (Terra de Fé), Spell of the Empire (Feitiço do Império), and Chaimite.

About the AuthorPatricia I. Vieira is Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese and Film & Media Studies, and Director of the Comparative Literature Program at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. She co-curates “The Philosophical Salon” at The European. She is general co-editor of the book series “Future Perfect: Images of the Time to Come in Philosophy, Politics and Cultural Studies” at Rowman and Littlefield International.

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Title: Portuguese Film, 1930-1960: The Staging
of the New State Regime